June 12, 2010

A 14-year-old girl from the state of Ohio won the annual Spelling Bee.

Anamika Veeramani stated out as a winner after correctly spelling the word used in the medical world stromuhr.

Stromuhr is a tool used to measure the velocity of blood flow.
She pocketed a prize of $ 40,000 in cash and prizes. In addition, she also holds the prestigious title.

In the race last year, Anamika was ranked fifth and this time be one of the favorites of the 273 participants of the final which was held for three days in Washington.

With the victory of Anamika Veeramani then this is the third year the race in a row won by the Americans of Indian descent.

Eight Indian Americans come out as champions for the last 12 years.
Anamika Veeramani has a hobby of playing golf and dancing. She aspires to attend Harvard University to become an expert cardiac surgery. (more…)

May 25, 2010

When Alexander the Great to set foot on the west coast of Egypt in 332 BC, he was stunned by the beauty of nature. “Here is my dream city would be built”, he said. Alexandria,a city, then became the capital of Egypt for nearly 1000 years. It is inhabited not only by the Egyptians but also those who live around the Mediterranean Sea such as Turkey, Italy, and Greece, Alexandria – along with Athens in Greece and in Syria-Anthiocia growing rapidly become the intellectual center of Alexandrian Empire that stretched from India to Egypt.

Unlike the City of Thousand Mosques in Cairo or Luxor, the Ancient Egyptian city Pharonic period, Alexandria was almost entirely the character of the West. Naturally some people call it a European city stranded in Egypt. Its location is near the coast, air cool, clean and orderly to make Alexandria a favorite summer vacation spot.

Among the heritage that are still Hellenic, today we can still find the world’s first legendary library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Aristrophanes manuscripts in the library Calligio Romano Rome, tells how the Egyptian library was built in 300 years BC. (more…)

May 11, 2010

The University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) routinely records a variety of faculty lectures every semester and publishes it on the internet since 2001. The recording was done with audio and video. This kind of regular publication of content for audio / video called a podcast.

Especially for UC Berkeley, they named it  For those who are interested can go directly to the home page and download the lecture you want. Bids his courses – average only at the beginning of the semester, but there are quite varied subjects: molecular biology, politics, communication sciences, physics and even philosophy. I myself just listening to lectures so far biology, but the professor deserved thumbs up. They could deliver lectures with a solid and clear in time – average one hour, and some even have a can communicate with a few jokes to entertain. If you use iTunes or another program that can download podcasts directly, you can sign up to RSS feeds from the relevant subjects and new content will be downloaded instantly once they are published.

UC Berkeley is not the only university that opened classroom content to the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is also having the program Open Course Ware (OCW). But unlike such webcast.berkeley where we participate in the lecture hall, the concept of OCW is a publication of the material – material that used to lecture at MIT. (more…)

April 10, 2010

Recent research shows that comprehensive sex education can reduce the possibility of teenage pregnancy, and there is no indication that it is raising the level of sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

“It’s not harmful to teach teens about birth control, in addition to the rejection of sex.” said Pamela Kohler, program manager at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Parents and educators have long argued, whether the student should get a teaching birth control, or are easy to just say no to free sex.
Kohler and colleagues studied the results of a national survey of the United States in 2002 and focused on heterosexual teen ages 15 to 19 years. These findings, based on responses from 1719 adolescents, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

After reviewing the results, researchers found that one in four teens received sex education course denial. Nine per cent, mainly in poor and rural areas, did not receive sex education at all. Two-thirds of the remainder receives comprehensive instruction, with discussion of birth control and rejection of the relationship. Teens that received comprehensive sex education has 60 percent less likely to get pregnant, compared to that received no sex education at all. (more…)

March 20, 2010

Bangladesh government closed one of the esteemed universities due to the students’ fight on learning schedule related to the World Cup match. At least four students were injured on that fight between junior and senior students.

A number of junior students at the University of Machinery and Technology in the capital Dhaka demanding the summer holidays brought forward so they can watch football on TV so they’re not too tense in the middle of exams. But the clash occurred after a number of senior students wanted a university exam is still carried out.

The government of Bangladesh, as reported by “BBC”, closed the university for an indefinite period and asked students to leave the dormitory in order to calm the situation.
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January 15, 2010

When Randa Makhoul, an art teacher at school in Beirut, asked his students in Arabic, they would often get answers in English or French.

“It’s very frustrating to see young people who want intelligent speak their mother tongue, but can not form coherent sentences correctly,” he delivered at the School of Notre Dame de Jamhour in the capital city of Lebanon.

Makhoulhanya one of several Lebanese teachers and parents who care about the increasing number of young people who do not master the Arabic language, although born and raised in the countries in the Middle East region.

He welcomed the government’s campaign to save the Arabic in Lebanon, called “You speak from the East and he answered from the West.” “The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance to maintain the national official language of Lebanon. We encourage learning a foreign language, but does not leave the mother tongue,” said Amal Mansour, spokesman for the Ministry of Culture of Lebanon.

Arabic is the official language of the Lebanese, but the English and French is widely spoken. Most Lebanese speak French – as a French colony – and the younger generation switch to using English.
The number of parents who enroll their children in schools that use the curriculum of France, England and America, and hopes one day will help them obtain jobs and an assured future. In fact, some of them speak French and in English in the house.

“It’s sad none of our younger generation who can speak Arabic very well,” said Lara Traad (16) Notre Dame de Jamhour student, one school with a French curriculum.

“Very sorry my parents did not help in improving my Arabic language skills. It is too late, but may do something for the younger students,” he was quoted as saying “the BBC”.

Lebanese language also has the distinction of classical Arabic, the dialect and language. Classical languages are almost never used in conversation – these are only used in the news, the official speech of its officers, and numerous television programs.

Now, many young people of Lebanon should work to improve the ability to read and write in Arabic. Similar problems occurred in several Arab countries that have more foreign schools – United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and some North African countries.